From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:21:26 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20100217182126.GC17100@nibiru.local> References: <20100217143303.GC10816@nibiru.local> <0ffee4ba13816a49a6360ce6668e65f2@quintile.net> <3e1162e61002170828i451c9d81ka5061e492db6e6b4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3e1162e61002170828i451c9d81ka5061e492db6e6b4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [9fans] Binary format Topicbox-Message-UUID: d5382f6c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * David Leimbach wrote: > A lot of "plug in" functionality you'll find on other platforms > that requires a shared library approach can be implemented via > a file system service technique. Of course, and I would really like to see that approach in the GNU world too (actually, I already did that in some projects). But it's really not easy to convice collegues or clients to this approach (often they dont even understand the concept of modularity - sad, but true). Even synthetic filesystems are good for moving bigger things to their own services, there're many cases where that wouldnt make sense, for example parsers. I doubt you'd really suggest putting an XML parser to its own filesystem for real productional use ;-p (having such a thing surely is a good idea for some cases, but for most cases an library would most likely be much easier and efficient. > I don't know why everyone doesn't want to build software this way. Well, that's probably a psychological/social phenomenon. Maybe some "bigger is better" ideology ? ;-o cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------